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Do JFKA CTs have a psychological need to believe it was a conspiracy?
Michael T. Griffith:
The OP is rather silly. Tom Graves has also made it clear that his conception of America compels him to reject any and all evidence of conspiracy in JFK's death. In his mind, as he has plainly admitted, the conspiracy claim is "nation-rending."
The vast majority of those who posit a conspiracy in JFK's death originally believed in the lone-gunman theory. I am one of them. Until I began to read about the JFK case after seeing Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK, I assumed Oswald was the gunman and that there was nothing more to it.
Tom Graves:
--- Quote from: Michael T. Griffith on June 30, 2025, 07:28:44 PM ---The vast majority of those who posit a conspiracy in JFK's death originally believed in the lone-gunman theory.
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I went from November 1963 to mid-1992 assuming LHO did it all by himself, then to watching Oliver Stone's Jim Garrison-based, self-described mythological film "JFK" and believing for about twenty-five years that it was a conspiracy by the evil, evil, evil Military Industrial Intelligence-Community Complex, then to reading about the assassination and participating at the so-called JFK Assassination Debate - Education Forum for several years (and, more recently, the "JFK Truth Be Told" FB forum) and to finally realizing that a self-described Marxist and former sharpshooting Marine U-2 radar operator by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK, with or without the logistical help of the KGB or the DGI, by firing three shots at him over 10.2 seconds in the echo chamber known as Dealey Plaza.
--- Quote ---Until I began to read about the JFK case after seeing Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK, I assumed Oswald was the gunman and that there was nothing more to it.
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What was it about "JFK" that made you want to read about the assassination? After doing all that reading, how accurate did you find Stone's self-described mythological ("to counter the myth of the Warren Report") film to be? Which "details," if any, do you think he got wrong? Which (KGB-influenced) authors did you read? Joachim Joesten? Thomas G. Buchanan? Mark Lane? Jim Garrison?
At what point did you conclude that "only" 20 to 30 bad guys were involved in the planning, the "patsy-ing," the shooting, the getting-away, and the all-important (and evidently ongoing!!!) cover up?
Steve M. Galbraith:
--- Quote from: Michael T. Griffith on June 30, 2025, 07:28:44 PM ---The OP is rather silly. Tom Graves has also made it clear that his conception of America compels him to reject any and all evidence of conspiracy in JFK's death. In his mind, as he has plainly admitted, the conspiracy claim is "nation-rending."
The vast majority of those who posit a conspiracy in JFK's death originally believed in the lone-gunman theory. I am one of them. Until I began to read about the JFK case after seeing Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK, I assumed Oswald was the gunman and that there was nothing more to it.
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Where is your evidence that the "vast majority" of conspiracy believers originally believed in the lone gunman theory? I've never seen anything remotely supporting such a claim. Where's the support for this?
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